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[Johan Hake <hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 10 May 2009 23:47:47 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:42:50PM +0200, DOLFIN wrote:
> > changeset:   6120:76bf86cf514eb0dbc88861c3ae3e6f113a80141a
> > parent:      6117:84edb07b28286a6ca33c399ad30d32b634b52ea9
> > user:        Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > date:        Sun May 10 23:40:32 2009 +0200
> > files:       dolfin/parameter/NewParameter.cpp
> > dolfin/parameter/NewParameter.h dolfin/parameter/NewParameters.cpp
> > dolfin/parameter/NewParameters.h sandbox/misc/cpp/main.cpp description:
> > Implement parsing of command-line options using boost::program_options
>
> This seems to work nicely and didn't require that much
> code. Parameters can now be read from the command line with

Works fine. How do we set the nested parameters? 

Does po comes with some help functionality, so 

  ./test --help 

can print the available options?

>   parameters.read(argc, argv);
>
> Should it be parameters.parse(argc, argv)?

I vote for this.

Johan

> This also makes DOLFIN depend on Program Options from Boost.
> For Debian/Ubuntu, the following package is required:
>
>   libboost-program-options-dev
>
> The following must also be added when linking:
>
>   -lboost_program_options
>
> Could someone add this to the build system?